The family moved to Florida when he was a teenager, and he attended Delray High School, where he was a standout athlete in football and baseball. The school’s last class graduated in 1949.

While still in high school, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy and served in World War II on the U.S.S. Robinson in the Pacific theater.

After the war, he and his buddies, seeking admission to the University of Florida, drove to Gainesville, only to be told there was no room for them. They were urged to try Florida State University, so they continued on to Tallahassee and joined the Class of 1950.

Mr. Falcon graduated from the University of Virginia Law School in 1953 and was admitted to the bar in Virginia, California, Missouri, and Florida. He practiced briefly in Kansas City, Mo., before returning in 1958 to live, and practice law, in Palm Beach.

He was partner in several law firms before being recruited in 1978 to open and manage a Palm Beach office for Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts, a position he held until his retirement in 1992.

He loved living in Palm Beach and served the town as chairman of the Retirement Board, as vice president of the Palm Beach Civic Association’s executive committee; and in the 1970s, as municipal judge one day a week for the town.

He was a director of U.S. Trust of Florida and had a second home in Red River, N.M.

Mr. Falcon remained a skilled athlete and outdoorsman well into his life. He played tennis, played golf with his high school buddies every Saturday for 50 years, and shot sporting clays with his children and grandchildren.

When he was 81, he shot his age in clays.

He was a member of the Everglades Club, the Bath & Tennis Club, and, according to his daughter Christy Maasbach, who inherited his sense of humor, “Costco.”

Mr. Falcon was married twice. Both his first wife, Shirley, and his second wife, Marina, predeceased him.

In addition to his daughter, he is survived by a son, Howard III and wife Sandi; and grandchildren Winston and Chessy Maasbach and Howard “Ward” J. Falcon IV.

A memorial service will take place at 11 a.m. July 25 at Lakeside Presbyterian Church in West Palm Beach.

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